Publications by Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology

Our research spans areas of statistical genetics, in particular the development of powerful statistical approaches to analyse genetic data, as well as studying infectious diseases.

Frazer, K. et al. (2007) “A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs”, Nature, 449(7164), pp. 851–861.

Gay, J., Myers, S. and McVean, G. (2007) “Estimating Meiotic Gene Conversion Rates From Population Genetic Data”, Genetics, 177(2), pp. 881–894.

Cherubini, A. et al. (2007) “An extended policy gradient algorithm for robot task learning”, in. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 4121–4126.

Jasra, A., Stephens, D. and Holmes, C. (2007) “On population-based simulation for static inference”, Statistics and Computing, 17(3), pp. 263–279.

Koukounari, A. et al. (2007) “Schistosoma haematobium Infection and Morbidity Before and After Large-Scale Administration of Praziquantel in Burkina Faso”, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 196(5), pp. 659–669.

Myers, S., Leigh, I. and Navsaria, H. (2007) “Epidermal repair results from activation of follicular and epidermal progenitor keratinocytes mediated by a growth factor cascade”, Wound Repair and Regeneration, 15(5), pp. 693–701.

Lewis, J. et al. (2007) “Evaluating the proximate determinants framework for HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe”, Sexually Transmitted Infections, 83(suppl 1), pp. i61 - i61-i69.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2007) “Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial”, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11(4), pp. 300–308.

van Boven, M. et al. (2007) “Detecting Emerging Transmissibility of Avian Influenza Virus in Human Households”, PLOS Computational Biology, 3(7), p. e145.

Marchini, J. et al. (2007) “A new multipoint method for genome-wide association studies by imputation of genotypes”, Nature Genetics, 39(7), pp. 906–913.